Car-door hanger.



G. E. MBRRITT.

GAR DOOR HANGER.

APPLICATION FILED JUNE 26. 1913.

GeorSeEMen-ttt l "A W UNITED srArEs EATEN Eten,

GEORGE E. MEnErrT, or BALTIMORE, MARYLAND, A ssIGNoE-or oNEnAnE To WILLIAM N. CRISP, or BALTIMORE, MARYLAND.

can-Doon HANGER..`

To all whom z' may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE E. MERRITT, a

citizen of the United States, residing in theV saine is to produce an improved hanger orA support for the rear edge of the door so that after the latter has been pushed into the door opening it may be moved laterally into line with the car wall.

Thisl and other objects are accomplished by the construction hereinafter` more fully described and claimed and as shown in the drawings wherein- Figure 1 is a side elevation of a part of a box car, showing the door as closed; Fig. 2.,

is a plan view thereof on an enlarged scale, omitting thel door. Figs. 3 and 4 are perspective details respectively of the bracket and the bolt hereinafter referred to; Fig. 5 is an enlarged horizontal section on the line 5-5 of Fig. 1; Fig. 6 is a cross section on f the line (3 6 of Fig. l.

In the drawings the letter W designates the car wall and T is a track carried by the same near its top and extending parallel therewith as seen at the left in Figs. 1 and 2, but bent slightly and carried obliquely inward over the door opening as usual, D is the door of any suitable type, and C Cv arev carriages which support said door and by preference have wheels traveling on the track. The carriage near the inner or front edge of the door is mounted on an ordinary bracket B and needs no further description, butwhen the door is pushed closed its rear edge must be moved laterally into alinernent with the car wall W, and hence the connection between this edge of the door and the carriage above it needs peculiarities of construction which are provided by my invention. The frame of this carriage C has an eye 1 in which is journaled the headed upper end 2 of a bolt 3 which hangs pendent therefrom, and the lower end of the bolt or pin is rigidly secured to one edge of a Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed June 26, 1913.

louter face of the door, D,

Patented Oct. 28, l1913?.l Serial No. 775,915.

substantially triangular plate 4 whose smaller end carries an upstanding stud 5 to constitute a rivet as hereinafter described.

In Fig. 3 is shown a bracket 10 of inverted U-shape whose feet 11 are Hattened and pierced with holes 12 for attachment to the;

curved upwardly and outwardly, and whose body 14 is pierced with an eye 15 at one end in which the stud 5 isv upset or riveted so that the plate 4.ispivotally connected with t-he body 14. The latter also has in one edge a notch 16, and upstanding from its outer edge is a finger or stop 17, preferably formed by stamping it from one edge of the whose legs 13 are plate of strip metal from which the entire Y bracket is made, and then bending it upward. However, I do not wish to be confined to the material or the exact proportions of which these parts are constructed.

The parts are assembled by swiveling the carriage C around the bolt or pin 3 under its head 2, then passing its plate 4 under the body 14 of the bracket and upsetting the head of the stud 5 in the hole 15 so as to pivot it to the said bracket, and finally securing the latter tothe face of the door as shown. The other carriage C being applied to the front corner of the door by an ordinary bracket B, the door is mounted on the track T and slid aside. Vhen now it is closed so that its front edge passes inward over the oblique portion of the track T and enters the door opening, its rear edge may be moved laterally into said door opening by simply pushing upon it. The result. is that the door at this edge and the bracket carried by it move `inward to the full-lined position shown in Fig. 5, the pivotal point 5 of the plate 4 moves with the bracket, but the bolt or pin 3 remains with the carriage so that the plate is required to turn on its pivot and the lower end of the pin 3 movesV out of the notch 16, though the weight of the door is still sustained by thereliable contact of the plate with the under side of the body portion of the bracket for a considerable area as shown. The door now remains locked and the car is'carried to its destination. To open the door it is rst unlocked and then drawn outward at its rear edge, when a reversal of the operation just described takes place. The weight at the rear edge of the door then comes directly beneath the rear carriage C and the door is iio slid aside as usual, the front carriage C following the track in a ina-nner which is obvious. The stop 1,7 at the rear edge of Vthe body 14 absolutely prevents the latter from passing out from under the track T, as the stop will strike the is drawn outward too forcibly' or too suddenly.

That is claimed as new is:

l. A car door hanger consisting of a carriage adapted to travel on a track, a pin swiveled in said carriage, a horizontally disposed plate secured to the lower end of said pin and having an upstanding stud, and a bracket of inverted Us-shape whose eet are adapted to be secured to the car door, its body being disposed above said plate, pierced with an eye in which said stud is pivoted, and provided in one edge with a track if the door notch 'for the reception of said pin, for the purpose set forth. Y 2. A car door hanger consisting of a carriage adapted to travel on a track and having an upright eye, a pin swiveled in said eye. and having a head above it, a horizontally disposed triangular plate secured at one edge to the lower end of said pin and having an upstanding stud at its smaller end, and a bracket adapted to be secured to the car door, above said plate and pierced with an eye in which said stud is mounted. ln testimony whereof l have hereunto set my hand in presence of two subscribing witnesses.

GEORGE E. MERRITT. 1Witnesses -lnuuAN C. Mnnnrr'r, WILLIAM E. GREISER.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents, Washington, D, C. 

